Laws of Exponents - Power Raised to a Power

Unit 2: Exponents and Radicals
Lesson 7 of 19

Objective: Students will be able to use conceptual approach to enable students to establish deep understanding of the properties of exponents that can be used to raise a power to a power.
Conceptually understand exponents to expand exponents with the same base and different bases. By expanding the multiplication, students will develop the rule of multiplying exponents by applying grouping and the associative property.

Collaboratively grouping students to become resources for one another in working through the activity to show ownership of learning brings in math practice standard one.

MP1 Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.

Applying the strategy of mini-wrap ups that are student centered will directly bring math practice standard 3 into the lesson.

MP3 Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of

Asking students to speak using correct vocabulary to explain their thinking applies math practice standard 6.

MP6Attend to precision.

Asking students to expand expressions to see the pattern of multiplication and then reason to create a rule for performing the multiplication faster through using exponents employes two mathematical practices - one for seeing the structure of the expanded form of the expression and another for expressing the regularity of the pattern as a rule:

Big Idea:
Temperature is the measurement of the average energy of particles in a system. but just how fast are they moving? Faster than a speeding car? Faster than the speed of sound? Faster than the speed of light?